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Salmon habitat and population restoration in Canada
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Efforts to restore salmon populations and habitats in British Columbia have focused on both ecosystem recovery and species reintroduction. In the Adams River, a collaborative project involving the Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw, the Pacific Salmon Foundation, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada aims to restore natural channel complexity. This initiative seeks to rebuild spawning habitats for sockeye, chinook, and coho salmon following landscape changes caused by the 2023 Bush Creek East wildfire. In the Upper Columbia River, the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA), the tribal council of the Syilx Okanagan Nation, is monitoring sockeye salmon returns using a network of underwater acoustic monitoring stations. For six years, the organization ONA has released conducted experiments by releasing salmon fry, smolt, and adults upriver from the Hugh Keenleyside and Brilliant dams near Castlegar to encourage returns to historic waters. While upstream migration remains obstructed by dams in Washington, such as the Wells, Chief Joseph, and Grand Coulee dam, dams, the alliance continues to reintroduce sockeye salmon from the Okanagan watershed into areas including the Arrow Lakes Reservoir and Slocan Lake. The Grand Coulee dam has blocked Canadian-bound salmon since the 1930s. To combat these barriers, First Nations are employing various restoration methods, including efforts by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to transport adult Chinook around dams.
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